(UPDATE!) Using SAN properly and missing English pronouns | Japanese From Zero! Video 11B 

As a native French speaker, it always surprises me how much English speakers struggle with context. In French we have a ton of words that sound the same but have different meanings, as a result we're wired to take context into consideration. After nearly ten years in Oz though, I came to the conclusion English speakers need clarity most if not all the time, otherwise they get confused. That must be quite the challenge to learn Japanese. Hopefully my French brain will help me in this journey (though I'm sure I'll face some other challenges!).

Its cool you making these updated early lesson videos. I've gotta remember check them out. and kudos on keeping the playlist so tidy George

I did book 1 years ago but figured what the heck and watched this and lo and behold I was pleasantly surprised to see 外来 come up which I recently learned in my kanji studies! Always nice to review earlier stuff and even nicer to watch any new content from you no matter what it is. Thanks!

Thank you!

I just bought your book after watching a handful of vids, ありいがとございます! (I may have an edge knowing hiragana and some katakana by heart)

Thank you very much sir😊😊

Top notch video!

great class

Make one shot video on book jfz 2 ,3,4 & 5

Quick ? Jumping into the book series. I noticed that there are books dedicated to learning kana. Should I start with these or with the first book in the Zero series- or both? Thanks.

Nice

"Not going to lie, you got me so bad with フォートナイト. I can read Katakana, so I'm like, "Foto, okay, it has to be something to do with like a photo or camera." And then uou got to it, and I'm like,"Fortnite! This man isn't hip enough to know what Fortnite is!"

Please turn on audio track for all the system so it makes the videos more effective to learn Japanese because we are from asia

Good video. Thank you very much. You must publish a book that is full of 'gairaigo', serioisly. To the best of my knowledge, there is no such book or website that contains a comprehensive, or near comprehensive list of all the many thousands of gaireigo words. I have looked and looked on the internet for such a long list of gaireigo, but have not found one. It appears that at least 95% of gaireigo words derive from English. It is estimated that approximately 10% of all Japanese words are gaireigo words. Although many of these words are obscure and are of a scientific or engineering context, it appears that approximately 3-4% of words used in everyday conversation are gaireigo words. Words relating to cars, computers, fashion and many other subjects are full of gaireigo. These english derived words are a big short cut for learning Japanese. Many Japanese language learners (such as my self) first try to find as many english sounding words as they can, when starting to learn Japanese. Then eventually you run out of them and you have to start to learn and memorize the real Japanese origin words. I am very serious, a book dedicated to gairaigo words will be a best seller. You can rate each word as to how commonly it is used in comparison with the alternative Japanese origin word. For example, 'Orenji' is more commonly used to mean the color 'orange' than the traditional Japanese word. Whereas 'kitchen' is seldom used (except in Japanese adverts) than the traditional 'daidokoro', although most Japanese people would still understand the word 'kitchen'. You can also explain any slight (and sometimes considerable) differences in meaning and useage and pronounciation between the english and Japanese version of each word. Eg. 'Manshon' means a condominium and not a 'Manshion'. Seriously, please go ahead and make such a book. I will definately buy it, as will thousands and thousands of other Japanese language learners. There is a huge gap in the market for such a very useful book and an additional complementary website comprehensive gaireigo list.

Would a teacher introduce themselves to their class as 田中先生です? Since they ARE in fact of higher status than their students...

Jo-Ji san, Arigatou Gogozaimasu.

Where is Maddy?

what if my name is Tarsan?😁😁

I really don't get why there's the "tsu" twice in TikTok, it threw me for six.

if U Don't know japanese just say "desu"

Is it rude to point at people in Japan? Since desu can mean he, she and they because in America it is rude to point at people I'm confused can you explain?

It's perfect, every language should get rid of that he/she/they nonsense.